HURRICANE NORA EYES SOUTHERNMOST BAJA.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Outer squalls of Hurricane Nora battered this rocky tip of Baja California Baja California, state, Mexico Baja California (Span.: bä`hä kälēfōr`nyä), state (1990 pop. 1,660,855), 27,628 sq mi (71,576 sq km), NW Mexico, on the Baja California peninsula. Mexicali is the capital. with lashing rain, winds and 15-foot waves Monday, stranding cars, shutting businesses and sending tourists packing. Nora has caused no deaths since becoming a hurricane Thursday, but the rain and flooding made driving and even crossing streets treacherous. Nora, the second hurricane this month to menace the normally sun-baked peninsula of hotels and sport-fishing marinas, destroyed dozens of beachfront beach·front n. A strip of land facing or running along a beach. adj. Situated along or having direct access to a beach: beachfront hotels; beachfront property. Noun 1. homes as it skirted mainland Mexico to the southeast. Monday evening, Nora's large and well-defined eye was 285 miles south-southwest of Cabo San Lucas Cabo San Lucas (popularly known as just Cabo) is a small city at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula at , in the municipality of Los Cabos in the state of Baja California Sur, Mexico. , the U.S. Hurricane Center in Miami reported. Moving at 8 mph, it packed sustained winds of 115 mph and was forecast to veer north - toward the Baja coast - today. |
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